Living Surfaces
Author: Gil-Fournier, Abelardo
ISBN: 9780262547956
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Jul 2024
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective./b>BR>BR>b>An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective./b>br>br>What if every vista, every island-indeed, every geographical feature on Earth-could be viewed as an art object? In i>Living Surfaces/i>, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. i>Living Surfaces/i> features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.br>br>With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, i>Living Surfaces/i> is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.
ISBN: 9780262547956
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Jul 2024
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective./b>BR>BR>b>An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective./b>br>br>What if every vista, every island-indeed, every geographical feature on Earth-could be viewed as an art object? In i>Living Surfaces/i>, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. i>Living Surfaces/i> features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.br>br>With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, i>Living Surfaces/i> is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.
